Intensive & critical care nursing : the official journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Aug 2020
ReviewThe impact of rapid response systems on mortality and cardiac arrests - A literature review.
Rapid response systems were created to improve recognition of and response to deterioration of general ward patients. ⋯ Evidence suggests that when the process of introducing/maintaining a rapid response system is successful and under certain favourable conditions, rapid response systems significantly decrease mortality and cardiac arrests.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Aug 2020
Nurses' experiences of ICU diaries following implementation of national recommendations for diaries in intensive care units: A quality improvement project.
To evaluate critical care nurses' experiences of ICU diaries following the implementation of national recommendations for the use of diaries for critically ill patients. ⋯ The results of this quality improvement project indicate that access to national recommendations on the use of diaries for critically ill patients have a potential of changing routines and increase standardisation.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Aug 2020
Observational StudyNurses' responses to monitor alarms in an intensive care unit: An observational study.
The present study aimed to determine the types of monitor alarms and nurses' responses to them in an adult intensive care unit. ⋯ In the present study, according to response requirement, the division of the alarms was different. The number of alarms that do not reflect the clinical status of the patient was high. It was found that as the false alarm rate increased, the response rate of nurses to these alarms decreased.